My name is Lara, I´m a nineteen year old visual arts student wanting to enjoy life and meet new people. I started college too young (I was only seventeen), and after one year studying I decided I had to experience new things before continuing my academic life. So I´m taking a year to travel around, meet new people, new places and learn a little about myself. I lived in Buenos Aires for some months and now I want to travel a bit more.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

I'm interested in Couchsurfing because I think is an amazing way to travel, as you can meet people and exchange experiences in your way. For me traveling is not only being in a different place, I want to enjoy the new culture.

兴趣

I´m a really curious person and I love learning new things so almost anything new will make me interested.

• books
• theater
• cooking
• traveling
• art history
• visual arts
• language exchange
• volunteering
• solo travel

音乐、电影和书籍

I´m pretty eclectic when it comes to music, I usually listen to Brazilian songs, but I'm really open to discover new genres. I don't think I have a favorite song, though I absolutely have a favorite singer, Chico Buarque.
I really enjoy cinema, specially thriller movies, my favorite one is Kubrick's "The Shining".
I read a lot, lately I've been reading mostly art books and some poetry, my favorite ones are Gombrich's "The Story Art" and one anthology of Alfonsina Storni that I have been reading for years.

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

One of the things that marked me the most was volunteering in a public school in São Paulo, Brazil. Some years ago I started working on a project that connected high schoolers who were willing to help with teachers from some public schools who needed help. I would go to this school after my class for two years to solve doubts the kids were having. It was truly the most amazing experience I have ever had, the idea that what I had learnt in school was enough to help others for me was really incredible. I didn't needed to be older than I was or to have any political power. I just had to go, for some hours a week to teach things I knew, and that could change a lot of things.

教，学，和分享

I love cooking and I like to think I do it well, it´s always a pleasure to cook for other people or (why not?) teach a recipe. I also enjoy to draw, paint and do graffiti, I would gladly share my experience with that. And I know it takes a lot of time to learn a new language, but I speak portuguese, english and spanish and I would love to help someone learninig or even practicing one of these languages.
As for learning, I think I would enjoy anything one could teach me, words in other languages, songs, recipes...

我可以与沙发主分享些什么

I would love to cook something or, if I have more time, even work on a graffiti project. But most of all, I would enjoy sharing my traveling experiences and learning about the host's culture.

我游览过的国家

Argentina, Barbados, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, France, Japan, Moldova, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Ukraine, Uruguay

我居住过的国家

Argentina, Brazil